HM Courts and Tribunals Service: Finance

(asked on 1st December 2020) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how much and what proportion of the £80 million of additional covid-19-related funding for HM Courts & Tribunals Service announced on 6 September 2020 is planned to be spent on (a) criminal court services, (b) civil court services, and (c) tribunal services.


Answered by
Chris Philp Portrait
Chris Philp
Minister of State (Home Office)
This question was answered on 7th December 2020

A jurisdictional breakdown of forecast expenditure in relation to the additional covid-19-related funding for HM Courts & Tribunals Service announced on 6 September 2020 is provided below.

The financial forecast is provisional, as at 30th November, and reflects latest projections of judicial demand and supply, physical court room capacity and current recovery trajectories. This forecast remains subject to change during the recovery phase, as resources are deployed in line with HMCTS recovery priorities.

Jurisdiction

£000’s

% of total

Crime

27,515

34%

Civil and Family

14,116

17%

Tribunals

3,364

4%

Probate

400

0%

Multi-Jurisdiction

35,351

44%

Total

80,738

*Multi-jurisdiction includes services accounted for at a national basis, for which a jurisdiction is not identifiable in the financial system – examples include resources working across jurisdictions to manage priorities and demand, corporate services, telephone conferencing.

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